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Does Speed Really Matter?
Good question, but yet so much answers. I would say it depends.
I am a careful person and I would not encourage to do 120Mph in a 50Mph zone while driving because this would be reckless and dangerous, and cause you to lose your life of the lives of others. So no speeding while driving.
For the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, speed does matter in winning the world record.
But for this blog post, I was talking about speed in the sense of which the time that your site takes to load up. Does the page load time really matter? Yes it does.
Why Is Site Speed Important?
It Affects Your Google PageRank
If you want you to get a high enough rank on Google then your site should be fast or have a good enough speed so that you can get a good pagerank.
In April Google employee Matt Cutts announced is now incorporating site speed into their algorythm that determines search rankings.
Visit the Google Page Speed site for more information.
It Makes Your Site Stand Out More
If your site is in a competitive niche you should ideally take every known ranking factor into consideration, including how fast or how slow your website loads.
If you are competing against other sites in your niche then your site should not be taking 20 seconds to load when their site’s are taking 10 seconds. You should strive to always be on top if you do decide to compete.
It Changes The Way People View Your Site
Slow sites can make a users angry. It can make them leave your site and never come back.
Imagine you have high-speed DSL and you are loading up a site to gather some information for a project. The first page that you go on takes about a minute and a half to load up. You get a little information and you then have to search for some more. You have to then navigate yourself through that slow site with each page taking almost 2 minutes to load. Wouldn’t it be better for you to find another site so you can get your information for that project? Yes it would.
Slow sites can make us:
How To Make Your Blog Faster?
WP-Super Cache
You can also use the WP-Super Cache plugin.
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Excellent point Kharim. Slow websites will not only annoy the visitors but also affect the overall performance of your website.
Isabel Rodrigues recently posted..Suffering From Bloggers Block
August 13, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the comment Isabel, that is so true
I use maxcdn to speed up my blog. And its really good. You can try it Kharim
Hieu Martin recently posted..5 Ways to Make Money Blogging
August 14, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Thanks for the suggestion Hieu
I hate visiting slow web sites, and am very cautious of the loading time of my blog. Using YSlow for Firefox, or Chromes native tools, you can easily determine what slows down your site/blog. For me, it usually extra plugins, or the scripts and stylesheets they load.
For a better caching Wordpress plugin, I recommend W3 Total Cache. That plugin also minifies both your CSS and script files as well as cache both pages and database queries.
Paul recently posted..Speed Up Your Web Site By Using CSS Sprites
August 16, 2010 at 8:49 am
Yes Paul that is an excellent point. Thanks again
Hey Kharim,
Great post. These are great tips.
I think you can also use max cdn service to increase the site speed. Many big sites are using max cdn.
Thanks for sharing this great post Kharim. Great work.
Dev recently posted..How to Add your logo to WordPress Admin Page in Thesis
August 16, 2010 at 8:56 am
Your’e welcome Dev, and thanks for the comment as well
I would recommend you to give W3 Total Cache a try and get one CDN account, your blog speed will be much faster
Tinh recently posted..Top 5 Affiliate Networks That Can Boost Your Sales
August 18, 2010 at 8:43 am
Thanks for the comment Tinh, I will check it out
great post Kharim.. I didnt know theres should always be a slash at the end of each url. I thought that was just optional.
Cindy recently posted..Next Paypal iPhone App Allows Charity Donations and Check Deposits
August 18, 2010 at 8:44 am
Well Cindy, I always use it on my blog and it seems to work perfectly for me.
thats great… I just fixed my links and added a slash on the end… good thing I dont have much posts yet or it’ll take me forever.. I’m gonna do this from now on
Cindy recently posted..GUI Design Showcase by z3olyte
August 18, 2010 at 10:05 am
Well I preset my links in the wordpress settings at the permalinks section, I just add the slash at the end. So when I make a post or page, it will automatically add it there
Hi, i agree that site speed really matter. This is becauase response times of your website determine whether online readers are going to dive into your snappy content or whether they will get so frustrated by waiting for it, that they will leave even before having seen it.
Almira recently posted..GI Joe Halloween Costumes
August 20, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Thanks for the comment Almira. Readers won’t wait all day on you site to load, they could Google another site and might even find better contents
Definitely slow loading times can be quite frustrating. Even if speed wasn’t a problem when it comes to PR, a fast site is almost sure to get more visitors than a slow loading one. At a certain point your just get bored of waiting and waiting.
Daniel Sharkov recently posted..Is Social Media a Marketing Model Worth Implementing
August 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Thank alot for the comment Daniel
I use a simple trick to optimize my blog. Just uploading the pics to an external server like flickr.com instead of my own server.
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September 6, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for your comment ADHONYS, and great suggestion
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